Dianne Feinstein defends Clinton’s email practices

[riversedge]

Source: Politico



By Rachael Bade

8/13/15 5:50 PM EDT


The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee defended Hillary Clinton’s email practices on Thursday, saying media reports about classified information on the former secretary of state’s server did not make clear that Clinton hadn’t written any of the “top secret” emails.

Two days after an inspector general said it found “top secret” information on Clinton’s unsecured email server, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California accused news reports of “missing key points.” For example: “none of the emails alleged to contain classified information were written by Secretary Clinton,” she said — nor were they marked as “top secret” at the time they were sent.

“The questions are whether she received emails with classified information in them, and if so, whether information in those emails should have been classified in the first place,” Feinstein said. “Those questions have yet to be answered. However, it is clear that Secretary Clinton did not write emails containing classified information.”
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............But Feinstein’s statement on Thursday aimed to rebut any accusations of wrongdoing. As the top Democrat on the panel with jurisdiction over top secret matters, Feinstein — who noted in the release that she reads classified documents all the time — has some authority on the issue and and her opinion should carry some weight.

The press still does not have access to the four emails the inspector general initially flagged to Congress, making it difficult to determine who, in fact, sent the messages........

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/dianne-feinstein-defends-clintons-email-practices-121339.html#ixzz3ikHUZj00


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/dianne-feinstein-defends-clintons-email-practices-121339.html#ixzz3ikHUZj00

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I know one media--Fox-has been harping..... Criminal criminal ..I expect it from Fox and RW but not from Democrats!




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[pnwmom]

1. Exactly. I read somewhere that these emails had been floating around the system for a while

and got forwarded to Hillary. And Feinstein has now confirmed that they weren't yet classified Secret.

Much ado about nothing, so far.

[riversedge]

4. and were not marked 'top secret' as Fox has been yapping!

[cosmicone]

15. Not just Faux but a lot of BS supporters as well n/t

[Dawson Leery]

2. Feinstein implied that the lax email practices are common in government...

many items do not have a clear identity to whether or not they should be classified.

[busterbrown]

3. Benghazi, Emails,Benghazi Emails, Benghazi, Emails..

Fast an Furious, Solyndra, API, IRS..the list goes on and on...You got nothing!!!!

Just Shut the Fuck Up already...Republicans...Just Shut the Fuck Up..

[smith_70]

8. I know right?

that is the republican platform make up scandals and keep them going. say them often enough they become reality. In their minds, not mine certainly.
The scary thing is this is how fascism take hold. read Yahoo comment line. some scary stuff

[bucolic_frolic]

5. All people struggle

with the secret/classified/sealed categories .... lawyers, judges, elected officials,
political staff

I don't know HOW they keep it straight, properly categorized.

We're not talking 10,000 pages, we're talking the deluge that is our modern
digital life ... hundreds of thousands of pages, and issues .... smart phones,
email, filing systems, archives

OK, the staff is supposed to be responsible, but the people at the top
are NOT IT PhD's, they rely on expertise

It's a daunting task

[still_one]

6. It isn't just fox. There are actually some sites where some folks there seem to bring it up every

so often

[smith_70]

7. hillary and emails

This is nonsense. Hillary Clinton is not hiding anything. This is just a republican scam, all of it.. The problem is there are real things and the republicans are right in the middle.. Their desire to take down Hillary is to deflect from the fascist activities of repubs

[humbled_opinion]

9. Hold on ....

I do agree with everything that Senator Feinstein said and posters are right to a point, but I think everyone is overlooking the fact that those emails were not on government severs where they would have been afforded much better protecting under the .gov domain than on a Hillary Clinton private email server in her home which lacked the massive security measures that .gov servers can provide so this is not simply apples and apples.

I feel bad that this happened but if classified information is deemed to have been on her home email server than she is accountable regardless of who sent them....

Congress is going to call for a special prosecutor on this and if she forensically cleaned her home server than it is going to look bad and I think the investigation will begin into all the emails of all of her counterparts and they will build the case of emails that were addressed to her or emails that other people have addressed from her...

This is not going away....

[Celebration]

11. Exactly

Not going away is probably an understatement. And her judgment is rightfully called into question on this, legalities aside. I'm not an It professional nor a Presidential candidate, and I know better than to have official business on a private server. This is not rocket science!

[pnwmom]

12. Not really better security. During this same period of time

a quarter million diplomatic cables -- which were supposed to be even under better security than .gov emails -- got passed on to Wikileaks.

And there have been other stories recently about the Chinese getting into our classified system.

[candelista]

10. I love this thread.

It's amazing what Hillary supporters will say to defend their candidate. I'll keep checking in!

[murielm99]

17. You do that.

Keep in mind that most people do not understand this "controversy," and are paying little attention.

Keep in mind, too, what happened with Bill. The more they witch hunted him, the more popular he became. And Hillary is already far, far ahead in the polls.

[pocoloco]

19. Feinstien thought water-boarding was OK also!!

idiot!

[m-lekktor]

20. just keep chanting "Benghazi/Vince Foster" a bazillion times and this will all go away!!

[RufusTFirefly]

13. Haha! Dianne Feinstein. Well, alrighty then! Case closed.

(I am a California progressive. Unlike much of the rest of the country, we have no illusions about DiFi.)

[RobietheCat]

21. California has gone down the tubes

while Feinstain was senator.

[AngryAmish]

14. I love her. That is the type of energy we need.

[Geronimoe]

16. Governor Sarah Palin

Interesting how Pain was not fit to be VP for using private email account to conduct State business.

How does the State Depart meet FOIA requests of court subpenas when they don't have the emails?

[Sienna86]

18. If Average Joe had done the same, he would lose security clearance and be fired

It was not okay.